Archive for May, 2006

aarohan.biz exploited

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

My dedicated hosting server which hosts aarohan.biz was exploited yesterday. Most probably as my root password was a weak choice.
Thanks to the guys at RimuHosting, where my server is hosted, for detecting this quickly and stopping the attack soon enough.
Lesson learnt. Always, always choose strong passwords.
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command line scripts save time

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

I’m a huge advocate of using command line utilities to automate mundane everyday tasks. One of them which I am forced to do daily is clear my SPAM folder in my gmail account.
I noticed a new version of the Perl CPAN module
Mail::WebMail::Gmail and I jumped at the opportunity. Just around 15 lines of Perl […]

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